The Composite Manager Guide: How to Get Vista-ish Effects in (K)(X)Ubuntu.

[Azriphale]

Unfortunately, one of the many, many shortcomings of Metacity is that, well, basically, you can't. You either have to use the reduced-resources mode thing that you mentioned, or get rid of metacity altogether. You may want to look at this guide to using enlightenment instead of metacity. I have not tested it lately, so I don't know how well it works... Here is the guide:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...ightened+gnome

Or you can look at using kwin instead of metacity:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...604#post648604

[poofyhairguy]

Is Luminocity in the Breezy repos? Or, better yet, can i get the latest source somewhere?

I while ago I made a guide. I wonder if it still works:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=45202

[poofyhairguy]

Did that not work for you?
Ok, fine, I promise I'll post the deps later. Sorry I didn't do it earlier.

If you go that far, please take it all into a new guide.

Add to the series.

[Azriphale]

Thanks for the Luminocity guide, I'll give it a try later.

And in a few hours, you can expect to see a guide on getting Xgl set up in Breezy. I still don't have hw acceleration working, i dont think, and I need to iron out a couple of problems I was having yesterday first. And I only get home in about 4 hours.

[tseliot]

I have a question: Is it possible to have transparent menus (e.g. the "Applications" menu) in GNOME?
In KDE I can.

It's the only thing I miss from KDE.


Thanks in advance

P.S. This is a wonderful guide

[poofyhairguy]

I have a question: Is it possible to have transparent menus (e.g. the "Applications" menu) in GNOME?
In KDE I can.

It's the only thing I miss from KDE.


Thanks in advance

P.S. This is a wonderful guide

Thanks. That means a lot- I consider you to be the best guide maker on the forum.

Yet I know no way to make the Gnome Menu's transparent. Until Gnome does this stuff without hacks....it might not be able to.

[tseliot]

Thanks. That means a lot- I consider you to be the best guide maker on the forum.

Yet I know no way to make the Gnome Menu's transparent. Until Gnome does this stuff without hacks....it might not be able to.

No, problem. If I find a way to do it I'll post it here.
Thanks again

[tseliot]

Have a look at the image at the end of the webpage http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/screenshots/

[Rob2687]

I compiled xgl succesfully with that guide but there is no Xglx in the folder mentioned. O_o

edit: Nevermind.

[Azriphale]

is Xgl working for you?
To have Xglx, you need to ./configure (or ./autogen.sh) with the --enable-xglxserver, not just --enable-xgl-server.
You can use either, or both options.